Metal ion probing of rRNAs: Evidence for evolutionarily conserved divalent cation binding pockets

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1282-1294

  Polacek, Norbert ^a   Barta, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Metal ion catalysis; Metal ion cleavage; Peptidyl transferase; rRNA structure

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; METALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RIBOSOMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031696584     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298980347     Document Type: Article

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